Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Your spouse is not a possession you attain, but a friend in which you trust & adore.

When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

Whoever lacks the initiative to read books stifles his own selfhood.

Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.

Often thoughts are given to me with the sole purpose of giving them away.

One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.

That little green drink inspired hallucination is right!

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

Our top priority is to relieve suffering of human beings.